Yamagishi-sensei!
Don't step foot into this building!
One wrong move and Yamagishi-sensei's life is forfeit!
What are you doing?!
Sonezaki-senpai?!
I called her here!
I call it the "Your Mother Would Be Ashamed" approach!
Everyone, please, stop this at once!
I appreciate the sentiment behind it, but
Well, Vice Principal, setting aside the ban on opposite-sex relations,
why don't we reverse our decision on expelling those two?
What? If we reversed it now, then our decision wouldn't deter the other students from-
Alright, then
Your ulterior motives are clear as day
This is no longer an issue concerning just our senpai!
We've boarded a train with no brakes!
Today is Friday, yes?
Huh? Oh, that's right
There are no classes Saturday, though there will be some students on campus for club activities
Hello!
We'll be back tomorrow morning, so please take this time to calm down a bit, alright?
What?!
Be sure to contact your parents and tell them where you are
Yamagishi-sensei, please keep an eye on them
Keep an eye on us?
You two, be sure to head home before it gets too late, okay?
I can't believe it
They're completely shirking their responsibilities
Alright, I'm heading out!
Oh, if you're going to be holding out till morning, then I'll bring you some McD's!
Hongo-chan! Let us come up there to be with you!
Then we can talk!
That's not necessary!
Wait! Let's talk!
I feel responsible for your situation, Wait! Let's talk!
I feel responsible for your situation,
so I will handle it myself
If things don't work out, then I'll be right behind you!
Right behind me?! You shouldn't!
So please, let me give this a try before I'm expelled
Goodbye
Girls
What now? We can't just leave
Amagi-kun!
Yes?
May I ask you a favor?
Well, that's unexpected
Final Episode: The Colors of the Hearts of Maidens
I would have never guessed it was you and Yamagishi-sensei who went into the love hotel
And I told you a dozen times, we didn't do anything!
Though we both saw each other's most private of places
But anyway, I'm hoping for a massive case of Stockholm Syndrome
Stop adding to your crimes!
That goes for all of you!
I understand wanting to help Sonezaki-san!
But this is far too risky!
What if all of you get expelled, too?
I wish we'd bought ingredients for curry
Then we might've had more fun
I don't think we need to be having fun in this situation
I guess that was a stupid thing to say
There had to have been another way to handle this
What's the point in bringing that up now?
Did you hear what Hongo-senpai said?
We've boarded a train without brakes
and it's already started to move
Yeah
Why did we go and do this crazy thing?
I didn't even hesitate
I want to ask the both of them
Why did we start this?
But
Izumi
I'm coming to school
Izumi!
See, over here!
Thanks, Amagi-kun!
So, Norimoto-
Is Kazusa okay?! Where's everyone else?
They haven't moved
Let's use this opportunity to put together a plan-
Hey, Norimoto-kun!
O-oh, no! Izumi's here!
Kazusa!
Calm down, Kazusa!
Maybe now's good
for telling him how I feel
Wait, telling who?
Telling Izumi
At a time like this?!
What about Kazusa's feelings?!
I've already gotten her permission
Really?
Y-yeah
When?!
Huh? On the 7th
The 7th
That must have been right after
Miss Sugawara, did you decide to confess to him
after I talked to you?
Yes I think so
What the heck?! Seriously?!
What, so I gave you that push?!
I'm so freaking stupid!
I blew myself up to give the main character, Miss Sugawara, the power she needed to move forward!
Wait, that's not it!
I hid how I really felt and tried to act mature I hurt everyone
including you, Momoko-chan!
So-
Don't tell him!
If you don't want to hurt me anymore, then don't tell him!
I don't want you to tell him!
Keep hiding your feelings, please!
I don't care if I get hurt!
I just don't want you to go out with anyone, ever!
Just stay single!
Momoko-chan!
Mo-chin!
Wait!
Let go of me!
No!
How can you hold me like that, like it's nothing?!
If I were a guy, would you have grabbed me like that?
You wouldn't have, would you?!
You wouldn't fling yourself at a guy you didn't like! He'd get all sorts of funny ideas!
I know he's not gonna go out with me if I tell him!
I just want to tell him, that's all!
I don't want to hear it!
I just want to tell him I love him! That's it, okay?!
Eep!
Eep?
I-Izumi?!
Oh, lord
This is why I said we should put together a plan
I-I mean, I just tried to open it, and it opened, so
Did you hear all that?
Well, if he did
Hey, Izumi-kun, tell us, won't you?
You've had a crush on Kazusa for forever, and now you're finally going out with her
You're super, super happy, right?
Mo-chin!
Of course I am
Okay then, go and say it
Even if Miss Sugawara told you she liked you, you wouldn't have any feelings for her at all!
Else, both Kazusa and Miss Sugawara would be super sad!
Mo-chin, why are you being so mean?!
You guys
Izumi-kun has to say it out loud to put an end to this!
Yeah, that's what I thought
Huh?
Kazusa's all worried because I won't say it outright
Izumi?
I'm in love with Kazusa
But
But the girl I'm sexually attracted to
is
Sugawara-san
He's not sexually attracted to me
He's only sexually attracted to me
S-sorry! I think I messed that up!
That's not what I meant
How could you be that cruel?!
Here I thought I heard a big commotion,
but then you came out and said the worst possible thing you could say to a girl
Exactly! It's rude to tell Niina that's all you feel for her
That you're only interested in her body
No, I'm sorry!
Let me reword that so I can explain-
I'm not that upset, honestly
Huh?
I don't mind if all you're interested in is my body
After all, romantic and sexual attraction can't be completely separated
H-hold on a second!
You said that sexual desire and romantic attraction were two different things for guys!
You were the one who said that!
And I was spouting off bullshit, pretending to sound smart
I mean
I was sexually attracted to Izumi-kun, too
That moment, when he touched me
I never thought I could ever feel so hot
You touched her?!
Don't phrase it like that!
Kazusa!
Unbelievable
My darling underclassmen have been colored by concupiscence!
Colored by concupiscence?
Taken by licentiousness!
They've been driven mad by lust, deviated from all manner of common sense!
By the way, Mister Boyfriend, have you had any experience touching women?
Huh? Well
I've touched a girl's chest
D-does that mean you've engaged in ess-ee-ecks?!
I'm kind of glad her microscope's not on us No, we didn't go all the way!
I'm kind of glad her microscope's not on us What do you mean by "all the way"?!
Huh?! What do you mean by "all the way"?!
You'll explain what happened, right?
Let's have a fight!
Huh?
I know what I'm saying sounds really weird
But I'm super confused right now
Honestly, I've been nothing but confused lately
But the only time I felt like I was able to escape from that confusion
was when we had that pillow fight on the club trip
A pillow fight?!
Yes!
All that thinking just led to me hurting myself over and over
But getting up and moving around made me feel a lot better
So maybe we should stop talking and just fight it out!
Humanity was gifted language to better understand one another!
Do you want to reset our species' progress back to Neolithic times?!
I'd say we've already blown past that point by now thanks to someone
This won't do
Huh?
Just thinking, we came together for a purpose,
to rescue our President Sonezaki,
but we've strayed quite far from that purpose
Y-yeah!
Still, do you really think we can all work together after all this?
That's why we need to talk!
No, we need to fight!
You said earlier you'd been "colored," yes?
The grey of the full moon sighing lightly in the dawn-lit sky!
A sighing moon?
And would you say the full moon is grey?
Typically, it's described as yellow
One!
Two!
Three!
There's no grey here! Three!
There's no grey here!
Four!
Why don't we play color tag? Four!
Why don't we play color tag?
Color tag?
Yes
That's like tag, but
But with extra rules
Whoever's "it" chooses a color, and everyone has to find it
Right, and if they're touching the correct color, they can't be tagged
Here's an example What color is this?
Uh, red?
It's more of a crimson
What?
Indeed, color tag asks its players and observers to correctly judge the indefinite and vague
I believe that by revealing these judgments to one another,
you will experience the same effects that speaking would have created
And it is a kind of "fight," in a sense
Revealing our judgments
You're desperately attempting to name these newly budding emotions
This is very similar; you'll be adding descriptive modifiers to the names of colors
By adorning them with your own words, you will be able to reveal the true colors of your hearts
The colors of our hearts
A sigh, a sigh
I'd never gotten a crush on a girl before
But I'd never really had a crush on a guy before, either
That's why I'm not sure if I can call these emotions "love" or not
How unfortunate
That's not the color of a sighing moon,
that's the grey of the concrete jungle that is our city
What?! You're just saying that so you can tag me!
In color tag, the players must see things from the point of view of whomever is "it"
Alright, choose the next color
A peach-colored Momoko
Huh?
A peach-colored Momoko
who couldn't sleep at night because she was thinking about Miss Sugawara!
Peach-colored Momoko?
One!
This is going to be another killer challenge One!
This is going to be another killer challenge Two!
Three!
Ten!
"Momo" is "peach," so
Mo-chin's completely locked on to Miss Sugawara
Yeah
I don't even know what that means
I just said that corny and embarrassing "peach-colored Momoko" without even thinking
But
Miss Sugawara is taking it really seriously and trying to work with my feelings
That's enough for me
Find it?
Sorry, I don't really know
It's okay I don't really know, either
I know, but I want to find it
I want you to keep being my friend, Momoko-chan, so I have to
You're "it," Miss Sugawara!
We are living through the blues of our youth
Blues of our youth?
So you want us to find blue?
That phrase was pretty clichéd, even for you, Niina
One! That phrase was pretty clichéd, even for you, Niina
One!
Two!
You can only use colors on this floor!
Three! You can only use colors on this floor!
Kazusa! Three! You can only use colors on this floor!
Ten!
Why's everyone going after one particular person?
I'm so tired
Even now, you're still playing the role of the dedicated advisor
There's no getting around that We all have our roles to play
Meaning that as the adult, you have to look after the children?
No
If there's already a protagonist to this story,
then the most I can do is stand to the side
Hitoto-san, you truly are entertaining to the point of burden
I want to entertain him
Don't attempt to satisfy me with those half-hearted platitudes when I haven't realized my goal
It's not entertaining at all, Yamagishi-sensei
It's so dark
Where are the lights?
This is how it's been
I want to have sex
Since that day, since those words,
I haven't been able to see my surroundings clearly at all
I felt like I was in the dark
But it's not the dark
We
were in the blues of youth
I want this color
This is the color, huh?
He used the same word
Listen, Kazusa
I might feel sexually attracted to Sugawara-san,
but I don't want to do it with her, not at all!
Look, it's fine
No, it's not!
I think I just didn't know what was going on with myself,
with how I felt, or who I was attracted to
And because of that, I made you and Sugawara-san feel confused and worried
Izumi doesn't understand, either?
It's not that I don't want to do it with you, Kazusa
It's just that everything else, like wanting to be with you,
and how I love you, and how we're basically family, is so much stronger
I feel the same way
And looking at you in a sexual way is still kind of embarrassing, like
I feel the same way!
And I don't want to rush into things and make it all weird!
Especially 'cause I wanna be with you from here on out
So I'm scared of our relationship changing real quickly
I get it!
That's it! That's how I feel!
Like I'm interested in sexual stuff, but I also don't like it!
And those feelings didn't really mesh with the person I'd known since I was a little kid!
Yeah, that's right! But I still love you!
You're really cute, so one day, it'll happen!
Yeah! You're super cool, so one day
S-sorry
No, I'm sorry
I wanna apologize to Sugawara-san, too
She's a weirdo, but she's a good person
The moment I realized I was looking at her in a sexual way
I kinda hated myself for it
You couldn't help it
I mean, I've looked at her that way before, too,
like when we took a bath together
A bath?!
Don't imagine it!
Hey, Izumi,
I'm sure we're gonna get anxious about stuff again from here on out
But I know that I feel the same way and use the same words as you do!
Because of that, I know that even if we start to worry, if we remember that, we'll be okay
Yeah
Sorry! I'm sorry, I swear!
Have you ever kissed anyone?
Yeah, kinda
What the heck?! How are you so brutally honest, even in situations like these?!
This is the worst! I want to erase those memories of yours!
I cannot believe that you've already had so much experience with-
Sorry
Why?
Why'd you kiss me now?
I mean, I've kissed a girl on the lips,
but never on her forehead
With you, just a kiss to the forehead is enough to make my heart start racing
Amagi-kun
Okay!
Hiding in color tag is against the rules
I think they should be penalized You're both "it" forever!
I-I'm sorry, alright?! I think they should be penalized You're both "it" forever!
I-I'm sorry, alright?!
Clearly, having boys around was a mistake
Can you go home?
We'll let Milo-sensei go, too
And so it disappeared into the blue
Even though I thought the same way
I thought I'd found it, too
I was thinking of that blue, too
You were listening in?!
This sucks
Yeah, it does
Sorry
I didn't mean you, Kazusa
Sorry
I'm not talking about you either, Miss Sugawara
I don't know how to describe it
It's like the whole world sucks
That's enough apologizing, I think
We've all sinned, after all
That's rich coming from you
I'm all burned out
I feel more like a pale white than any kind of blue
The pale white of burnout syndrome
The white in the translated title of "The Idiot" by Ango Sakaguchi
I'm more of a fan of Dostoyevsky's work of the same name
For me
white means
Good morning!
Thank you for coming so early
Well, us older folk are fine with early mornings
I'm sure they've cooled off a bit after a night
Let's resolve this before students start arriving for club
Yamagishi-sensei!
They let you go, and you're okay?
Yes
They must have finally calmed down, then!
I'm not too sure about that
The white of purity
Hearts pure and clean, without stain
Or those who possess them
Possessing a clean heart and body, unsullied by the opposite sex or by sexual desire
Some people say wedding dresses are white so you can be "dyed in your spouse's color"
If we were to learn even more,
would we only sully ourselves further?
I don't believe in that
When the blues of youth that have enveloped our school are hit by white light,
so many new colors are revealed!
SONEZAKI-SENPAI
DIDN'T DO IT!!!
REJECT THIS
TYRANNICAL RULE!
All these colors were sleeping beneath those deep blues
FALSELY
CHARGED
They're not dying us,
REVERSE
or dirtying us
Repeal the rule against
opposite-sex relations!
Reverse your
decision, yo!
Wake up! Don't let
them take our futures!
No expulsion! What's wrong
with dating someone?!
They're wrong!
Don't let the adults
control us!
When new feelings shine light on us,
we discover new colors within us we never knew we had
PURITY
They spring forth, one after another
The heck is going on?
This is straight out of a movie
Hey, no pictures!
Don't take pictures!
Oh, my
They are well within their savage season
Heyo!
He's two months old now!
The seasons pass
So, too, does the beloved season in which I was so foolish, so ridiculous
I have a premonition
Performance for Milo-sensei
and Tomita-sensei's Wedding
SECRET!
In the coming season, I'll be a bit more clever
and perhaps someone other than yourself will rest their hand upon my cheek
When they do, I will remember
The memories of those fumbling hands on my skin
The memories of that awkward, graceless season
will replay in my mind, ad infinitum
O Maidens in Your Savage Season
It fit
O Maidens in Your Savage Season
The End